Speaking on “In Depth with Graham Bensinger,” Cameron explained that he has effectively started over in the South Pacific nation, where he both resides and has spent years producing his blockbuster films. According to Breitbart, he framed his move as an escape from what he sees as America’s failures, particularly its response to the coronavirus pandemic, and held up New Zealand’s heavy-handed COVID regime as a model to admire.
Citing a report from Variety, Cameron first justified his relocation by praising New Zealand’s aggressive virus controls and high compliance with government directives. “After the pandemic hit… [New Zealand] had eliminated the virus completely,” he said, before boasting, “They actually eliminated the virus twice. The third time when it showed up in a mutated form, it broke through. But fortunately, they already had a 98% vaccination rate. This is why I love New Zealand.”
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For Cameron, the contrast with the United States could not be starker, and he made clear he views his fellow Americans as dangerously misguided. “People there are, for the most part, sane as opposed to the United States where you had a 62% vaccination rate, and that’s going down – going the wrong direction,” he argued, casting New Zealanders’ willingness to obey state mandates as proof of their superior rationality.
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He pressed the point further when Bensinger asked where one would rather live, using the question to disparage the U.S. as divided and anti-science. “Are you kidding me? Where would you rather live?” Cameron asked, before extolling “A place that actually believes in science and is sane and where people can work together cohesively to a common goal, or a place where everybody’s at each other’s throats, extremely polarized, turning its back on science and basically would be in utter disarray if another pandemic appears.”
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Cameron’s glowing rhetoric about New Zealand’s “sanity” stands in sharp contrast to the reality that the country embraced some of the harshest COVID restrictions in the Western world. As Breitbart News reported, New Zealand slid into outright authoritarianism during the coronavirus pandemic with some of the world’s strictest lockdowns and wound up with surges of Wuhan coronavirus infection and death anyway.
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The left-wing government of then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern famously imposed a three-day nationwide lockdown in August 2021 over a single case of coronavirus transmission. That “zero-COVID” strategy, cheered by many global elites, came at the cost of civil liberties, economic freedom, and basic normalcy, yet Cameron now cites it as evidence of a more enlightened society.
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When Bensinger suggested that the United States remains “a fantastic place to live,” Cameron immediately pushed back. “Is it?” he replied, dismissing the idea that America’s freedoms and opportunities outweigh its political and cultural turmoil in his eyes.
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Bensinger then tried a different angle, praising New Zealand’s natural beauty as a reason to live there. “But New Zealand is just stunningly beautiful,” Bensinger noted, to which Cameron replied: “I’m not there for scenery, I’m there for the sanity.”
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Cameron also made clear that his sense of “safety” in New Zealand is tied directly to escaping President Donald Trump and the American media’s focus on him. He said he feels “safer” there and added, “I certainly feel like I don’t have to read about [Trump] on the front page every single day. And it’s just sickening. There’s something nice about the New Zealand outlets — at least they’ll put it on page three.”
His contempt for Trump is personal and visceral, extending well beyond policy disagreements into crude insult. “I just don’t want to see that guy’s face any more on the front page of the paper. It’s inescapable there, it’s like watching a car crash over and over and over,” Cameron complained, portraying Trump’s prominence as a kind of national affliction from which he has now escaped.
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This is not the first time Cameron has publicly attacked the President, particularly over climate policy and his refusal to bow to environmental alarmism. Last December he scolded the president for refusing to accept the doomsaying of global warming alarmists while calling Trump a “narcissistic asshole” for not relenting to the climate change mob, as Breitbart News reported.
In that earlier interview, Cameron railed against Trump’s efforts to roll back radical climate regulations and questioned the sanity of anyone who resists the green agenda. The famed director disgorged his vitriol in an interview with the where he claimed Trump’s moves to thwart global warming extremism is sending humanity “backwards.”
“I’m frustrated because the human race seems to be delusional about what they think is going to happen next. We are going backwards,” Cameron exclaimed, casting skeptics of climate catastrophe as irrational and dangerous. The Terminator creator ripped Trump as the “most narcissistic asshole in history since fucking Nero.” And added, “Yeah, you can quote that.”
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Cameron’s comments underscore a broader divide between Hollywood elites and millions of ordinary Americans who value personal liberty over government micromanagement of their lives. While he celebrates a small island nation’s willingness to submit to sweeping mandates and censorship of dissent, many in the United States remain wary of the very authoritarian impulses he praises, preferring a messy but free republic to a “sane” society defined by state control and ideological conformity.
